Gaffer was talking about a destination IP not the gateway, IP, & DNS values. If the WD has ability to access local media shares by IP then that would fit the test Gaffer means (I think).

On 4/28/2010 10:23 AM, Winterlight wrote:
At 02:10 AM 4/28/2010, you wrote:
I doubt this TV devices have the need much less ability to allow you
to punch in addresses by IP and if so it would not test the issue
which is DNS failing.

Actually, they all three allow me to input all the numbers manually.
s




On 4/26/2010 1:58 PM, Gaffer wrote:
On Monday 26 April 2010 21:15:17 Winterlight wrote:
Try making a request directly, say "64.233.169.93" and see what it
returns.

By this, if you mean manually inputting the DNS numbers then I did do
that on the TV but it didn't help

m

What I was trying to find out was whether the machine could resolve an
address without using DNS.


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